Abstract: Provide is a zinc secondary battery capable of preventing a short circuit between the positive and negative electrodes caused by zinc dendrites. The zinc secondary battery of the present invention comprises a positive electrode; a negative electrode containing zinc; an electrolytic solution in which the positive electrode and the negative electrode are immersed or with which the positive electrode and the negative electrode are in contact, wherein the electrolytic solution is an aqueous solution containing an alkali metal hydroxide; and a separator being placed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and separating the positive electrode and the negative electrode from each other, wherein the separator comprises an inorganic solid electrolyte body having hydroxide ion conductivity.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a production method for a polyolefin, in which catalyst activity is improved, and a polyolefin such as a linear low density polyethylene can advantageously be industrially produced. The present invention relates to a production method for a polyolefin, in which in producing a polyolefin by the polymerization reaction of an olefin using a catalyst, an organohalide is present in the reaction system in an amount of from 0.05 to 10 ppm by weight in terms of the halogen atom as a concentration in a raw material olefin, and 1-hexene for linear low density polyethylene production raw material, containing an organohalide in an amount of from 0.05 to 10 ppm by weight in terms of the halogen atom.

Abstract: A crushing drying device includes an object-to-be-treated supply port from which an object is supplied into a main body, a crushing portion for crushing the object by hammers rotated on a drive shaft, and a classifying portion having a space for circulating the object to be treated at a position away from the crushing portion, the crushing portion has a dry gas supply port from which the heated air is supplied in a predetermined direction along an inner surface of the device main body, and the classifying portion has discharge portions from which the crushed object is discharged together with the heated air, and deviation plates for changing a flow of the object transferred to the classifying portion, so that the crushing drying device is one machine.

Abstract: An all-solid-state cell has a fired solid electrolyte body, a first electrode layer integrally formed on one surface of the fired solid electrolyte body by mixing and firing an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte, and a second electrode layer integrally formed on the other surface of the fired solid electrolyte body by mixing and firing an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte. The first and the second electrode layers are formed by mixing and firing the electrode active material and the amorphous solid electrolyte, which satisfy the relation Ty>Tz (wherein Ty is a temperature at which the capacity of the electrode active material is lowered by reaction between the electrode active material and the solid electrolyte material, and Tz is a temperature at which the solid electrolyte material is shrunk by firing).

Abstract: An all-solid-state cell contains a combination of an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte, and has a plate-shaped fired solid electrolyte body of a ceramic containing a solid electrolyte, a first electrode layer (e.g. a positive electrode) integrally formed on one surface of the fired solid electrolyte body by mixing and firing an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte, and a second electrode layer (e.g. a negative electrode) integrally formed on the other surface of the fired solid electrolyte body by mixing and firing an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte. The solid electrolyte materials added to the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer comprise an amorphous polyanion compound.

Abstract: A motor drive unit which improves the cooling ability. The motor drive unit comprises electronic components and a housing which surrounds the electronic components. The housing has a back plate to which the electronic components are fixed, a front plate which faces the back plate, and a first side plate and second side plate which face each other and extend from the back plate to the front plate. The first side plate has openings which pass through the first side plate and slants with respect to the back plate so as to approach the second side plate or separate from the second side plate the further from the back plate toward the front plate.

Abstract: A user interface generation device includes: a generation unit which generates a user interface for instructing an execution unit to execute a function based on an application program; and a storage unit which stores a definition file defining a user interface object and information indicating a display ability of a display unit. The generation unit selects or discards the object definition information and judges whether all the objects can be displayed. If No, the generation unit rewrites the information relating to the object size according to the information in the display unit so that all the objects can be displayed. After this, the generation unit generates a synthesis user interface according to the information.

Abstract: A method for easily producing a graphite powder for use as a lithium secondary battery negative electrode material with small specific surface area while reducing energy consumption, and achieving high graphitization efficiency, includes melt-mixing a coke powder and a carbon precursor binder so that an amount of fixed carbon included in the carbon precursor binder is 5 to 15 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the coke powder, to prepare a mixture, and pressing the mixture to prepare a compact, the coke powder being obtained by heating a green coke powder at 600 to 1450° C. in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, the green coke powder having a cumulative particle size at 50% in a volumetric cumulative particle size distribution of 5 to 50 ?m; heating the compact in a non-oxidizing atmosphere to effect carbonization and graphitization to obtain a graphitized compact; and grinding the graphitized compact.

Abstract: A technique capable of effectively using a plurality of wireless communication systems for wirelessly communicating by different communication schemes is proposed. The present invention is configured so that: a land station of a first wireless communication system, a land station of a second wireless communication system, and a control device are connected by a network; the control device transmits instructions for modifying communication software used in wireless communication into communication software corresponding to the second wireless communication system, the instructions being transmitted to a land station of the first wireless communication system; and the land station of the first wireless communication system modifies the communication software in accordance with the instructions from the control device, whereby the land station of the first wireless communication system made to operate as a land station of the second wireless communication system.

Abstract: There is disclosed a glass-fiber coating liquid for forming a coating layer on a glass fiber cord, prepared in the form of an emulsion consisting essentially of a monohydroxybenzene-formaldehyde resin (A) obtained by reaction of monohydroxybenzene (D) and formaldehyde (E), a vinylpyridine-styrene-butadiene copolymer (B) having a vinylpyridine monomer content of 17 to 35% by mass, a styrene monomer content of 20 to 40% by mass and a butadiene monomer content of 35 to 60% by mass, a chlorosulfonated polyethylene (C), an acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (P); at least one of an antioxidant, a pH adjuster and a stabilizer; and water.

Abstract: A user interface generation apparatus 1 has an application program execution unit 11, a user interface generation unit 13, a user interface display unit 24, and a memory unit 50 for storing information on characteristics of an apparatus itself as well as object definition information defining objects composing a user interface. The user interface generation unit 13 generates a compound user interface by selecting object definition information stored in the memory unit 50, setting a margin for when the selected object is arranged based on the object definition information and the information on characteristics of the apparatus itself, and arranging the object in a predetermined area of the display unit based on the margin.

Abstract: Provided is a zinc-air secondary battery capable of preventing both of the short-circuiting between positive and negative electrodes caused by zinc dendrites and the carbon dioxide incorporation. This zinc-air secondary battery includes an air electrode (12) functioning as a positive electrode; an inorganic solid electrolyte body (14) provided in direct contact with one side of the air electrode and having hydroxide ion conductivity; a metal negative electrode (16) provided opposite to the air electrode with respect to the inorganic solid electrolyte body and comprising zinc or a zinc alloy; and an electrolyte solution in which the metal negative electrode is immersed, the electrolyte solution being separated from the air electrode by the inorganic solid electrolyte body.

Abstract: A hydrogen concentration meter for measuring density of hydrogen in gas, is disclosed having a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is formed of a first metal. The second electrode is formed of a second metal having a work function different from a work function of the first metal. The second electrode faces the first electrode. At least one of the first electrode or the second electrode detects an electrically charged particle generated electrically between the first electrode and the second electrode by a recoil proton generated by an irradiated neutron.

Abstract: A motorcycle is equipped with a V-type engine in which front and rear cylinders are arranged in a V-shape along a vehicle front and rear direction. An exhaust device includes: a catalyst device disposed on an exhaust downstream side of a collection part of an exhaust pipe of the front cylinder and an exhaust pipe of the rear cylinder; and a connecting pipe via which the exhaust pipe of the front cylinder and the exhaust pipe of the rear cylinder communicate with each other, and the connecting pipe passes through a space between the exhaust pipe of the rear cylinder and the catalyst device.

Abstract: There is provided a polymer matrix that can suppress the orientational relaxation of an organic nonlinear optical compound, and a composition containing this polymer matrix and an organic nonlinear optical compound, and an optical material obtained by using the composition. A composition including: a norbornene imide polymer having a structural unit of Formula [1]; and an organic nonlinear optical compound: (where R1 is a C1-12 alkyl group optionally having a substituent or a C6-10 aryl group optionally having a substituent).

Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner to be installed in a passenger compartment S includes a casing, a piping component, and a seal 60. The casing accommodates a heat exchanger. The piping component supplies a heating medium to the heat exchanger or exhausts the heating medium from the heat exchanger. The seal 60 seals a portion between the casing and a periphery of an opening P of a dash panel P of a vehicle. The dash panel P separates the passenger compartment S from an outside of the passenger compartment S. The piping component is inserted into the opening. The seal 60 has a surface facing the dash panel P and including a notch 60d. The notch 60d is positioned outside the periphery of opening P1.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium-air secondary battery that is capable of effectively preventing deterioration of an alkaline electrolytic solution, air electrode, and negative electrode and has a long life and high long-term reliability. The lithium-air secondary battery comprises an air electrode 12 functioning as a positive electrode, an anion exchanger 14 provided in close contact with one side of the air electrode and composed of a hydroxide-ion conductive inorganic solid electrolyte, a separator 16 provided away from the anion exchanger and composed of a lithium-ion conductive inorganic solid electrolyte, a negative electrode 18 provided so as to be capable of supplying and receiving lithium ions to and from the separator and comprising lithium, and an alkaline electrolytic solution 20 filled between the anion exchanger and the separator.

Abstract: A technique capable of effectively using a plurality of wireless communication systems for wirelessly communicating by different communication schemes is proposed. The present invention is configured so that: a land station of a first wireless communication system, a land station of a second wireless communication system, and a control device are connected by a network; the control device transmits instructions for modifying communication software used in wireless communication into communication software corresponding to the second wireless communication system, the instructions being transmitted to a land station of the first wireless communication system; and the land station of the first wireless communication system modifies the communication software in accordance with the instructions from the control device, whereby the land station of the first wireless communication system made to operate as a land station of the second wireless communication system.

Abstract: A fan cover (10), on which a fan motor (11) is mounted, includes: a fan cover flat portion in which an opening portion (12) is formed; a protruding portion (13) extending from the fan cover flat portion around the opening portion; and a supporting portion (14), which is arranged on the protruding portion, for supporting the fan motor, wherein a distance between the fan cover flat portion and the supporting portion of the protruding portion is smaller than the thickness of the fan motor.

Abstract: A main power supply supplies a power supply voltage to a power supply terminal of a DUT. A control pattern generator generates a control pattern including a pulse sequence. A compensation circuit intermittently injects a compensation current to the power supply terminal of the DUT via a path different from that of the main power supply. A switch is arranged between an output terminal of a voltage source and the power supply terminal of the DUT, and is turned on and off according to the control pattern.